{"id":1179,"date":"2007-04-10T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:32:00","slug":"nrc-staffers-quietly-become-gun-toting-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/nrc-staffers-quietly-become-gun-toting-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"NRC Staffers Quietly Become Gun-Toting Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typical cases involve falsified records, lost equipment, sleeping on the job<\/p>\n<p>By Mike Stuckey, MSNBC<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nuclear1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nuclear.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>With no public discussion or input from Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has quietly obtained armed federal police status for a small office of investigators whose big cases typically involve people sleeping on the job, falsifying documents or misplacing equipment.&#8221;I didn&#8217;t realize you needed guns and handcuffs to protect yourself against paper cuts,&#8221; said Dave Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a longtime critic of the NRC&#8217;s Office of Investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The police status was granted after the office claimed it needed powers it never or rarely uses, and raised the specter of clandestine and dangerous missions in letters and memos to other federal agencies. 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